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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 14:26:21 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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To: "Jin Guojun (ITG staff)" <jin@george.lbl.gov>
CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: suggestion on using boot.config
References: <199801071632.IAA09184@george.lbl.gov>
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Jin Guojun (ITG staff) wrote:
> 
> } In article <199712160444.UAA16864@george.lbl.gov> you wrote:
> } > I do not know if this is a good place to address this issue.
> }
> } > For remote development, I would like to modified "boot.c" to rename
> } > "/boot.config" to either "/boot.config.run" or "/boot.config.last"
> } > after readfile("boot.config", boot_config, BOOT_CONFIG_SIZE);
> }
> }  Hmm... doesn't "nextboot" do what you want?
> }
> }  (I've only read the man page on it so don't shoot me if it doesn't)
> }
> }  Peter
> 
> Nop. It doesn't matter what I put in the nextboot strings, it just boots
> from the default /kernel. According to the man page:
> 
>         nextboot -b  /dev/rwd0 1:sd(0,a)/kernel.experimental wd(0,a)/kernel.old
> 
> I changed it to :
> 
>         nextboot -b  /dev/rwd0 1:wd(0,a)/kernel.test wd(0,a)/kernel
> 
> Nothing happenes.
> 
> -Jin

well did you 
1/ make sure you are not 'dangerously dedicated"
2/ recomopile and install the bootblocks with that option turned on?